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The Classical And The Christian: Tennyson's Grief And Spiritual Shift From "The Lotos-Eaters" To "Ulysses", Carleen Lara Miller Ratcliffe Jun 2016

The Classical And The Christian: Tennyson's Grief And Spiritual Shift From "The Lotos-Eaters" To "Ulysses", Carleen Lara Miller Ratcliffe

Theses and Dissertations

Sacred forms, in the shape of doctrines and creeds, constituted a large part of Tennyson’s childhood religion. This is reflected in “The Lotos-Eaters,” written in 1832, as Tennyson cautions against increasingly popular ideas of secular materialism; Tennyson’s mariners parrot the ideas of Epicureanism, but their arguments mirror that of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene character Despair. In putting Despair’s words in the mariners’ mouths, Tennyson warns against forgetting religious ritual, as this leads to suicide and eternal damnation. However, with the death of Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, Tennyson’s religion shifted dramatically. In Memoriam gives us the final version of Tennyson’s …


The Last Gentlemen: Southern Conservative Superfluity And The Work Of William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy, And Peter Taylor, William Matthew Simmons Jun 2016

The Last Gentlemen: Southern Conservative Superfluity And The Work Of William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy, And Peter Taylor, William Matthew Simmons

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation proposes that a robust, serious treatment of Southern conservatism can provide readers with effective ways to interpret works of Southern literature. Southern writers have always dealt with issues we might identify as “conservative,” and scholars have shown us three typical ways of Southern writers approaching conservatism. First, some writers have treated conservatism as one of many characteristics of the South; their treatments of conservatism have been part of their descriptive project. Other writers have used conservatism for more didactic, political purposes, whether that be showing the South’s sins or arguing that the South’s conservative character makes it a …


The Civil, Silent, And Savage In Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, Alexander J. Steele Jun 2016

The Civil, Silent, And Savage In Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, Alexander J. Steele

Theses and Dissertations

In this paper I argue that the political situation between Britons and Saxons within Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant further articulates Ishiguro’s ongoing critique of Western humanism’s logic of labelling the Other. I also argue for a definition of the figure of the buried giant broadly speaking as the Other par excellence, as an entity of pure alterity, and as a Lèvinasian “infinite other.” As The Buried Giant demonstrates, Ishiguro continues to write against the politics of humanism that have flourished in Western art, science, and political philosophy since the Enlightenment. Though Ishiguro sets The Buried Giant loosely in the …


Playing In Literary Landscapes: Considering Children's Need For Fantasy Literature In The Place-Based Classroom, Sarah Fischer Jun 2016

Playing In Literary Landscapes: Considering Children's Need For Fantasy Literature In The Place-Based Classroom, Sarah Fischer

Occasional Paper Series

Are the philosophies and pedagogical practices of literature-based classrooms congruent with place-based classrooms? In this paper, the author argues that not only is imaginative literature compatible with place-based philosophies, but it can become a powerful centerpiece of a curriculum aimed at educating for a sense of place and inspiring life-long readers.


The Second Wilde Revival: Current Trends In Oscar Wilde Scholarship, Helena Gurfinkel Dr. Jun 2016

The Second Wilde Revival: Current Trends In Oscar Wilde Scholarship, Helena Gurfinkel Dr.

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


A Time To Die: Death And The Self In Virgina Woolf’S Orlando, Emily Harmon Jun 2016

A Time To Die: Death And The Self In Virgina Woolf’S Orlando, Emily Harmon

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

No abstract provided.


Accessing Poetry In A Global Age: Applied Pedagogical Assessment, Amanda Bryars Jun 2016

Accessing Poetry In A Global Age: Applied Pedagogical Assessment, Amanda Bryars

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

No abstract provided.


No Child Left Unharmed: The Image Of The Child In The Hunger Games, Sara Harvey Jun 2016

No Child Left Unharmed: The Image Of The Child In The Hunger Games, Sara Harvey

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

This project seeks to examine the role of the child presented in The Hunger Games by comparing the image of the child to that of the adult, both in the individual districts and in the utopian city of the Capital. By using the contrasting images, I aim to show how imagery is used to draw on the significance of the misplaced roles. Director Gary Ross uses opposing color themes to show stark differences between the Capital and the districts. However, I feel that a further argument can be made in the way that the children and adults are expressed on …


Introduction: Fabulous Animals, Holly Dugan, Karl Steel Jun 2016

Introduction: Fabulous Animals, Holly Dugan, Karl Steel

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.


Enter The Dragon: Desire And Meaning In A True And Wonderfull Encounter, Jan Stirm Jun 2016

Enter The Dragon: Desire And Meaning In A True And Wonderfull Encounter, Jan Stirm

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.


"Famine And No Other Hath Slain Me": Jack Cade In The Garden Of Iden, Emily Gruber Keck Jun 2016

"Famine And No Other Hath Slain Me": Jack Cade In The Garden Of Iden, Emily Gruber Keck

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.


Desdemona's Dildo: Fetish Objects And Transitional Sex In Othello, Perry Guevara Jun 2016

Desdemona's Dildo: Fetish Objects And Transitional Sex In Othello, Perry Guevara

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.


Familiar Creatures: Witchcraft, Female Bodies, And Early Modern Animals, Christopher Clary Jun 2016

Familiar Creatures: Witchcraft, Female Bodies, And Early Modern Animals, Christopher Clary

Early Modern Culture

No abstract provided.


Tracing The Material: Spaces And Objects In British And Irish Modernist Novels, Mary Allison Wise Jun 2016

Tracing The Material: Spaces And Objects In British And Irish Modernist Novels, Mary Allison Wise

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Tracing the Material considers how James Joyce’s Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s The Years, and Samuel Beckett’s Murphy represent material spaces and objects as a way of engaging with the fraught histories of England and Ireland. I argue that these three writers use spaces and objects to think through and critique nineteenth and early twentieth-century conflicts and transitions, particularly in the areas of empire, nationalism, gender, and family. Writing in the 1920s and 1930s, in the decline of British ascendency, the rise of the Irish Free State, and between the World Wars, these writers seek to interpret their history through …


Entertaining Angels: Homelessness And The Hospitality Of Faith In Adams County, Christopher R. Fee Jun 2016

Entertaining Angels: Homelessness And The Hospitality Of Faith In Adams County, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

I first volunteered at a soup kitchen in the frigid depths of winter in very late 1981 or very early 1982, in the heart of the Rust Belt in the midst of a terrible recession. I should emphasize right from the onset that I didn’t want to be there: I was next to useless and very intimidated, forced to be there by the tradition of service at my all-boys Catholic high school. Still, the experience made quite an impression on me, and I tell that story to my students so that they will understand that I know what’s like to …


Txtng: A Nu Pov Human Drivers Of Modern Language Change, Kelli Johnson Jun 2016

Txtng: A Nu Pov Human Drivers Of Modern Language Change, Kelli Johnson

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

No abstract provided.


Eng3010g-600: Literary Masterworks, Melissa Caldwell Jun 2016

Eng3010g-600: Literary Masterworks, Melissa Caldwell

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng1002g-001: Composition And Literature, Tammy Veach Jun 2016

Eng1002g-001: Composition And Literature, Tammy Veach

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng5061-600: Special Topics In Literature And Literary Theory, Suzie Park Jun 2016

Eng5061-600: Special Topics In Literature And Literary Theory, Suzie Park

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng1001g-001: Composition And Language, Angela Vietto Jun 2016

Eng1001g-001: Composition And Language, Angela Vietto

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng3005-600: Technical Communication, Donna Binns Jun 2016

Eng3005-600: Technical Communication, Donna Binns

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng3705-600: American Multicultural Literatures, Tim Engles Jun 2016

Eng3705-600: American Multicultural Literatures, Tim Engles

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Harlaxton Study Aboard Eng3010 Eng3970 Eng5997: Literary Landscapes, Randall Beebe Jun 2016

Harlaxton Study Aboard Eng3010 Eng3970 Eng5997: Literary Landscapes, Randall Beebe

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng1001g-002: Composition And Language, Denise Preston Jun 2016

Eng1001g-002: Composition And Language, Denise Preston

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng1001g-003: Composition And Language, Kathy Olsen Jun 2016

Eng1001g-003: Composition And Language, Kathy Olsen

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


Eng5585-001: Writing Project For K-12 Teachers, Robin Murray Jun 2016

Eng5585-001: Writing Project For K-12 Teachers, Robin Murray

Summer 2016

No abstract provided.


June 13, 2016: 2016 New Issues Poetry Prize, Department Of English Jun 2016

June 13, 2016: 2016 New Issues Poetry Prize, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


The Owl, The Goldfish And The Bull - The Question Of The Animal And Romantic Poetry, Hui Zhang Jun 2016

The Owl, The Goldfish And The Bull - The Question Of The Animal And Romantic Poetry, Hui Zhang

Between the Species

This article argues that the representation of animals in Romantic poetry contributes to the contemporary philosophical and ethical discussion of the question of animals by providing a literary expression of the latter. Conversely, reading depictions of animals in Romantic poetry with their philosophical implications in mind throws light on the oppositions between different human groups, such as between Orientals and Occidentals, or between males and females, in Romantic poetry. These categories connect with each other in different ways in the works of three prominent Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and Alexander Pushkin. Animals in their poetry reflect their views …


"I Heard The Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality In Selected Works Of Evelyn Waugh, Janelle Lynn Ortega Jun 2016

"I Heard The Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality In Selected Works Of Evelyn Waugh, Janelle Lynn Ortega

English Language and Literature ETDs

Through the lens of structural intertextuality, this dissertation reveals the significance of literary allusion in some of Evelyn Waughs works. It investigates intertextual significance and intent that has, heretofore, been largely bypassed. This study tracks Waugh's intertextual instances from his earliest novels through his short stories to one of his final works. Waugh's intertextuality unearths a hope for not only literary culture but also the world at large. A study of Waugh's intertextuality uncovers an overarching theme of hope rooted in literary culture. This dissertation begins with an explanation of intertextual theory and the words and phrases pivotal to a …


Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar Jun 2016

Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar

The Hilltop Review

Despite the growing evidence of humanity’s impact on the natural world and the urgent need to shape citizens who understand the impact that their choices and actions have on their local and global environments, colleges and universities throughout the United States have been slow to add environmental education as a core component of their undergraduate curricula. Harnessing our shared interest in environment issues and the humanities, we designed and taught an experimental course in environmental literature for the honors program at Western Michigan University that we hope will become a template of what is possible in postsecondary environmental education. Using …